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Parenting Can Lend A New Sense
Of Empowerment, Focus on the Job

By

Tara Parker-Pope and

Kyle PopeStaff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

Updated May 14, 2000 11:59 p.m. ET

Does motherhood marginalize women at the office?

Several years ago, Tara would have argued that it does. She had seen many women scale back at work, shift gears and turn down opportunities to manage the demands of both work and family. And she, herself, was prepared to do just that.